John Beck

Today I got 4 tickets to see Arcade Fire at the Mann Music Center on August 2nd. I’m very excited. Arcade Fire seem like they would be incredible live. I can hardly wait!!!

This evening, on my way home from the Trenton Thunder game, my car reached another milestone, the odometer now reads 111,111 miles. Great job Honda! Here’s to 222,222!

My wheat beer is ready and the labels are on. Thank you Mr. DeNito for the wonderful label artwork.

So, I finally retired my 12 year old PowerMac G3/G4 tower. It took up so much space. It’s a great machine and it still works fine. I had cables all over, the keyboard took up so much space on my desk and it was just ugly (even though I repainted it). So now I organized everything. My MacBook Pro is now at the center. I have an external monitor hooked up to it which I keep iTunes and the like opened in it. I also now keep my Wacom tablet hooked up all the time and use it as a mouse/pen pad. I put up a little cork board on the side for notes and stuff instead of having Post-Its and paper all over the place. I have a nice little syncing/charging cradle for my iPod and iPhone, so everything is nice and tidy looking. There’s a shelf above my desk where the printer and negative scanner is and a small desk to my left which has my flatbed scanner. What I’m looking for now is a thin piece of white plastic that I can put on the top of my desk. Take a look at the picture and you’ll see what I mean. Do you think maybe Home Depot will have something like that?

Yesterday Steffers and I went down to Baltimore for the day. Part of our itinerary was to stop by the corner of North Ave and Broadway where less than a week ago they officially unveiled a new street name in honor of Ray Lewis. Some kids on the corner saw me take the picture and started yelling “RAY LEWIS WAY!! RAY LEWIS WAY!!”

IndyCar racing is set to come to Baltimore in May of 2011. So awesome! I’m totally gonna be there for the entire race weekend. That would be so cool seeing them racing down the streets of Baltimore. Wish it was NASCAR but IndyCar will have to do. Here’s the link on the IndyCar site: http://www.indycar.com/news/show/55-izod-indycar-series/37225-baltimore-race-moves-closer-to-green-flag/

I got an iPad for my mom on mother’s day. It finally arrived today. It is actually pretty awesome. It’s definitely not a computer replacement and seems pointless if you already have a laptop and an iPhone but for my mom it’s perfect!

I installed a bunch of her favorite apps for her already. Configured her email for her and so on. I even installed some kids apps for when she babysits. I also put a book on there that she’s been wanting to read. So far she loves it. As do I.

I haven’t been updated my blog here too much. I’ve been on the PlayStation 3 a whole lot. Love that thing so much! If you’re on the PS3 my PSN is ‘beckinabox’. Add me as your friend, let me know who you are, I don’t accept strangers.

Instead of updating my blog here I’ve been on Twitter a whole lot. I find micro-blogging on Twitter a lot easier sometimes. I’m also on FourSquare. So you can see what I’m up to on Twitter and where I’ve been on FourSquare.

Twitter: beckinabox
FourSquare link

Next week I hope to start painting again. Looking forward to it. I haven’t painted in years. I’m also going to start using Rosetta Stone again. Started learning Italian last summer and never followed through with it. Also planning on going to Baltimore with Steffers. Tonight we’re going to see Jønsi, although I think I’d rather stay home and watch 24.

New video for HEALTH – “We Are Water” directed by Eric Wareheim. Cool song. Incredible video. Beautifully done. Breathtaking even.

Ryan Newman won last night’s NASCAR race at Phoenix International Raceway. I don’t post on Newman that much because, well, he hasn’t won a race since the Daytona 500 back in 2008. When he took the lead on that last restart with 2 laps to go I knew he wasn’t going to give it up easily. Great job Ryan!

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